On 06/07/07, Tim Starling tstarling@wikimedia.org wrote:
You probably chose the "MySQL 5 binary" schema. Ha ha, tricked you. If so, it should be fixed in 1.11.
Yes...
Anyway, to sort out the problem for now, create a new user in the normal method, check the user's identifier in Special:Preferences, and then insert a couple of rows into the `user_groups` table in the database, like so:
INSERT INTO `user_groups` ( `ug_user`, `ug_group` ) VALUES ( 1, "sysop" ), ( 1, "bureaucrat" );
Rob Church